Whistle might go down as one of the years best horror films that got a wide release, with almost no push for the film ahead of time, that no one saw.

Our story follows a group of high school students who after blowing into and hearing an Aztec death whistle are killed off one by one. We have Chrys, the new girl in a small town, who finds the whistle in her locker and after hanging out with her cousin and his friends get dragged into this situation.

Sure, the plot holes start early. This small town moved on from the previous owner of her locker, who died violently in school, so quickly that they never bothered to empty his locker where the whistle was. Its also somewhat easy to look past because the premise itself here works so well. We get a Final Destination esque film here where everyone within ear shot of the whistle has death chasing them where they die in the fashion and age that was set for them from birth. This leads to some incredibly graphic and rather cool kills here where we get a solid mix of practical effects and CGI.

Our cast of high school characters are paper thin and don’t keep us rooting for them enough to really care though if they die. They set themselves apart enough though to be memorable, even if their inclusion makes no sense. Our religious nut who is also a drug dealer, main character with a troubled past who is also into the popular girl, and the guy who gets friend zoned.

Really on paper, and even writing this, so much of this film doesn’t have much going for it yet it works. Its a fun, simple, and incredibly mindless horror film that gets by with a unique enough premise to it where it can have some fun.

Score :

3.5 / 5

The horror world taking any property they can touch and giving it the horror spin is now starting to wear thing. The Poohniverse was dumb fun, Popeye got at least one watchable film, but Wizard Of Oz : Dead Walk proves that the low budget run of these films is hitting its threshold.

We follow Dorothy who is a recovering drug addict who has been placed by her Aunt Em inside the Emerald Rehabilitation Clinic. She has constant nightmares of that she is in another land with a yellow brick road and creatures plague it. Soon though the Tin Man and Scarecrow from her nightmares are now in the real world though who are not friendly, but are killers who collect hearts and brains.

This is the first of four Oz related horror films releasing in 2026 and this one shows its low budget openly. The writing and acting is atrocious with the effects and costumes being even worse. Our Tin Man has wrinkled clothes and a bendy cheap weapon out of a Halloween store.

While the concept here could work with a budget, all the film has against it just weighs it down here. We get slogged through bad writing and acting to the point where the bad kills don’t help get past the fact that the film itself is painfully boring.

Score :

.5 / 5

Silent Hill on paper should be an easy enough horror film to make. Great location, characters, story, and the creep factor is all there. Somehow though we are now 0-3 on good films based on the games with this years Return To Silent Hill by far being the worst entry yet.

French director Christophe Gans, who directed the 2006 Silent Hill, is back at it this time around though the films are not related at all. We follow James Sunderland, a tortured problematic artist, who after losing the love of his life appears back in Silent Hill based on a feeling that she is still alive. He attempts to piece together clues of what may have happened to his love Mary, the town, and his own life as reality starts to blur even further.

The story is the first part of this films issues though. James, once in Silent Hill, runs from spooky situation to spooky situation, with really nothing in between. The world feels empty in the worst way, nothing feels like a threat, and it all comes across as boring and lackluster. Iconic enemies make their appearance here and are quickly either dumbed down and ignored as if they aren’t a real threat.

It tries so hard too with the story to make it a convoluted plot of what may or may not be real but never seems to embrace it enough to let us in. We get hints of sub plots including the town, a cult, his love Mary and what happened, as well as his life post Mary, but the film just sort of moves on without explaining it in even a simple way.

Visually the movie is hideous too. The green screen is constant and looks beyond cheap. So many effects are just keyed in to where its clear nothing is actually around them. It doesn’t help too that our only two actors here are both acting with the enthusiasm of someone who doesn’t want to be there and hold zero chemistry together.

At 106 minutes the film slogs on. Though the ending tries its best to redeem itself, which is supposedly one of the endings of Silent Hill 2 which this game is based on, the journey there is boring and not done well enough to endure the travel there.

Score :

.5 / 5

Don’t you just love a terrible love budget movie where really nothing in it stands out because it seems they always find their way to me.

The Vindicator follows a true crime podcast crew who has a serial killer disrupt their show as they are filming at a famous location. From there he slowly starts to go after them causing them reveal things they wish were kept hidden.

This is low budget and awfully boring. The plot never becomes interesting with the twist mainly because everyone here is so horribly unlikeable. Its a room of people who don’t get killed quick enough.

Sadly not even the kills here are worth it because there really isn’t anything noteworthy at all and really nothing till the final few minutes. You are stuck with shoddy camera work and bad acting at a slow pace instead in an attempt to build towards our climax.

Its a premise that we will likely see way more in horror and if done right, could be great. Here though it just isn’t worth it.

Score :

1 / 5

The legend John Carpenter, director, writer, composer legend in horror, had his concert from LA Halloween night 2025 professionally recorded and released on Screambox.

With a setlist mixing themes and songs from some of his iconic films like Halloween, Christine, Escape From New York, The Fog and more alongside some of his recent stuff from his Lost Theme albums.

Covered in brooding dark and red lights while a screen in the back plays clips from his films or other videos while the band gives fans synth filled greatness. Its such a treat to see how even his lesser known Lost Theme stuff works so well. The hits for sure are his film works and they provide that certain feeling inside of just knowing its stuff that will be major forever.

Fans of the genre, his work, or just synth music in general will enjoy seeing this legend blast through a set filled with hits.

Score :

4 / 5

Review available due to promotional code provided by Screambox

Its fun to see a New Years related horror film as its a holiday that is often ignored but New Fears Eve isn’t doing it much justice.

With a story that barely clinges to life and just barely sets up our situation as we follow a small team of people during their companies New Years party. The bosses are jerks, the employees are all unlikeable people as well, and now theres a masked killer roaming around taking people out one by one.

Thankfully the kills here have some solid practical effects but even then feel mixed. Its almost like they wanted to mix different horror themes into this slasher where it felt off sometimes like they wanted slasher meets Saw type kills. The gore is fine in parts but never really goes too far out.

Our killer has a generic plague doctor look to him and by the end it sort of just finishes without any bit of a satisfying ending to it. Its a low budget and straight to Scream Box exclusive but it just could have been better.

Score :

1 / 5

Filmed reviewed with promotional code provided by Screambox